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V/A Relaxed Journeys (Chill Tribe)
Compiled by PKS, Mastering by Eldar Van Esse, Coverdesign bt Marmelade.
The cd contains a 8 pages booklet withphotos & ingos about involved artists.
Tracklisting:
1>Altitudes - Altitude II (8:28)
2>Nada - Earthgarden (Jong Remix) (8:43)
3>Adham Shaikh - Indu (9:09)
4>Digitalis - Noodles (7:34)
5>Jong - Unexplored Depths (9:09)
6>Makyo - Nothing Is Real (Sensual Mix) (7:51)
7>Solar Quest - Tokers Dream (Remix) 8:01)
8>EldarLife - Gone Gong (8:22)
9>Circular - Ambulo (4:00)
10>Saafi Brothers - Multiverse (8:34)
1> A kinda french chill dream-team named Altitudes( Gabriel Masurel aka Blue Planet Coropration + Johannes Regnier aka Silicon Sound + Yannis Kamarinos aka Ja�a) opens up the cd with Altitude II. The tune is sweet, dreamy & floating; it's a journey riding on a white cloud around the world through the birthing icy crystals outhere in the sky. Let's hope the trio will cook up an album soon as obviously the project has the potential for it.
2>Nada ( Humphrey Bacchus who is/was involved in Liquid Sound Design & Dragonfly + Russel Davies aka Abakus ) with Earthgarden remixed by new french rising chill artist Jong ( Jonathan Garnier ) proposes an more ethnic oriented production, more colourful & warm; indeed it's Indian sounding to me. The track mixes dub grooves, ethereal layers with indian woman vocals & probably some live percussions appears from the middle if my ears don't betray myself, nice exotic vibes here.
3>We keep going the exotic trend here still with the Indian atmosphere thanks to Gemma Luna's vocals & the Adham Shaikh's composition in Indu. We match again some rythmic work here again but the feeling is more hypnotic, deeper; the groove is also dubby here but in a bouncier way.
4>Listening music is nice & entertaining but doesn't feed his man, that's why we got a rendez-vous with Digitalis (Seb Taylor aka Shakta) for savouring some Noodles . According to the trackname, i was expecting some japanese influences here. And in a subtle way, i wasn't completly wrong, thinking here about the mental, catchy & nebulous atmosphere plus some swift pizzicati synths notes emanting out of the tune, even if the flute's melody is defintivly more Indian sounding than from anywhere else.
5>Jong ( Jonathan Garnier ) with Unexplored Depths continues the Indian travel, we match here the dub groove, woman vocals,percussions but also & that's one of the 2 particularities of the tune, some accordion or maybe bandoneon instead, violin & sithare melodies; lots of many instruments so . The second specificity is the use of some quick & discret fx on several moment of the track which is quite rare for a chill production.
6>I was speaking of Japan, Makyo (Gio Makyo headlabel of Dakini rec) with Nothing Is Real (Sensual Mix) is the japanese touch of the cd in his recognizable style made of long drifting layers very hypnotizing, i'd qualify the sound as aquatic. It's a full trip explorating the seas deeps in apnea.
7>The longly chill involved since more 12 years & pioneer Solar Quest (George Saunders ), delivers with Tokers Dream (Remix) lots of indian psychedelic bubbles chill with a flood of sitare melodies. There's no more superficial words to add, let's just fizz with him.
8>EldarLife (Eldar Von Essen ) is close in his musical chill approach in Gone Gong to Makyo, which means more sunny, no dubby at all or containing any indian influences whereas it consists in drifting layers with a focus on the floating aspect. Despite some resembleaces with Makyo, the production is aerial sounding here & not aquatic which confers it some character.
9> Circular ( Bjarte Andreassen, Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik) introduces us into a slow broken beat mixed with parcimony piano's melody notes a la Erik Satie's feeling; something very special & different from the rest of the compilation & so, constitutes a true climax of the cd. The track is so good that it will eternally appears too ephemeral like all valuable things.
10> They used to be well known for their dubby-chill albums, the Saafi Bros (Gabriel Le Mar , Michael Kohlbecker) are back here with Multiverse, reflecting & scintillating sounds at the menu of this closing track in a global deformed soundscape like if you were seeing only things in moving fuzzy mode nevertheless the dubby touch is present here but just very slightly & backgrounded
Today the pop-dance singer Ice Mc would have said "It's a rainy day", the kinda wheather which only makes happy frogs & snails... Automnal colours & tones from the rain & falling leaves are relaxed journeys for those 2 previous quoted animals. From now, thanks to the compilation holding this same name Relaxed Journeys, fill in with lots of top names among the psy chill area doing here a great work at the level of their reputation, human beings also have the possibility of enjoying this season but for another reason . In France we have currently what we call 'L'�t� Indien" (Indian Summer), meaning an autumn which looks like a long perduring soft& sweet summer, Relaxed Journeys seems to be the full 80 minutes tool to make it happens all over the 365 days of the year.
Climaxs:All
mark:9,5/10
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